Race Report: Paris-Roubaix (aka Almonte Roubaix)
If timing is everything, is everything timing? According to logic, yes. But is timing really everything? The Almonte Roubaix is the best race in the Ottawa region. Obviously, that’s a subjective...
View ArticleMay is Bike to Work Month
Just a quick note on Ottawa’s Bike to Work Month, which rolls through the end of May. The City of Ottawa is unrolling some great initiatives aimed at improving cycling connectivity, safety, and...
View ArticleRide of the Damned 2014 – June 22
Background The Ride of the Damned is a unique cycling event that will celebrate its 6th edition on June 22, 2014. Born out of the desire for Tall Tree Cycles team riders to share interesting and...
View ArticleCoupe des Ameriques: Unum Tenemus
I had to write this out before I could land on a title. In wanting to tell a story that could be considered interesting, even ‘exciting’, the hesitation was that I’d come across as sounding like I...
View ArticleVermont Overland Grand Prix: Crush and/or be Crushed
It’s finally happening. Dirt road racing is gripping the cycling world, shaking it up, and leaving riders asking for more. New events are popping up all over eastern North America, and this is just the...
View ArticleDirty 40 Race Report: Give and Take
A strange amalgam: Beauty - Grit – Pain – Risk – Hope – Acceptance – Satisfaction – In equal parts. The 2014 edition of the Dirty 40 race – originally a 60 mile parcours with 40 miles of dirt road –...
View Article2014 Ride of the Damned Recap
Thanks to everyone who joined us on June 22 for the sixth edition of the Ride of the Damned! The weather was perfect for the ride, sunny in the low and mid twenties. After sending off the 15 teams for...
View Article2014 Montreal Grands Prix Cyclistes
Sometimes the simplest things are so much more meaningful than the most complex and elaborate. Cycling, be it racing or otherwise, serves up many an opportunity to savour and truly appreciate the small...
View Article2014 Double Cross: October 13
What is it? An appetite seminar every Thanksgiving Monday, Double Cross is a rally/randonnee through Gatineau Park, to Wakefield and back, ridden in teams of two. Initiated as a cyclocross ride, Double...
View ArticleFrom the wilds of Alaska…
We got a box from the far north yesterday, which got us all giddy! Tall Tree has received its seasonal shipment of Revelate frame bags, just in time for fatbike season! Since 2007, Revelate has been...
View ArticleSpring into, um, spring, with Lake MX145′s!
I asked Martin, one of our Bush League members to write up a review about the Lake’s he’s been riding all winter. He didn’t have time for a short review, so he gave me a long one instead. Still, it’s...
View ArticleBrodie Night!
Hey folks, On Saturday, March 21st, Matt Hornland from Brodies bikes is in town with a bunch of bikes. We like Brodie. They’re Canadian. They’re modest(that used to go hand-in-hand, I suppose). They...
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